L’Oca d’Oro invites our friends and mentors from Austin and beyond to join us in the kitchen on the first or second Monday of every month starting again in September ’23. Come taste what Chef Fiore and our guest Chefs will be preparing this year.
In ten dinners this past season, we were able to raise almost $50k for Lilith Fund thanks to your support! This year, we will be raising money for Good Work Austin as they launch an ambitious Culinary Training Program to teach life skills, cooking techniques and hospitality steps. Trainees will come with partner non-profits that work with children aging out of foster care & residents of supported living facilities.
This special series arose from our desire to build even closer bonds with Austin and our bar and restaurant community after the isolation of the pandemic.
Monday, May 13 6-8PM; Peter Klein, Holiday (ATX)
Monday, June 3rd 6-8PM; Reem Assil, Reem’s (SF,CA)
In 2010, the dream of Reem’s was born at the doorstep of a street corner bakery in Beirut, Lebanon. The scent of za’atar, yeasted bread, and sweet orange blossom syrup right out of the oven and the sounds of laughter and chatter in Arabic all around me conjured up memories of my childhood and my yearning to create home and community in the United States.
It was in watching the bread flying out of the oven, literally into hungry people’s hands, and witnessing the life inside those bakery doors despite the political turbulence outside of them that I realized my people are masters of bread and hospitality: the lifeline of our history and what has kept us resilient over many generations despite colonization, war, drought, and famine in the Arab world.
